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November 2014
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The basis for all work undertaken at the Fraunhofer IAO is
a deep conviction that business success in a globalized
arena is contingent on an ability to profitably leverage new
high-tech potentials. In order to optimally exploit these opportunities, companies must be capable of developing and
implementing customer and employee-oriented
technologies faster than their competitors. Work organization concepts must be simultaneously innovative and
anthropocentric. A systematic design, in other words, is the
outcome of pooled management and technical expertise.
This holistic perspective when it comes to project processing
ensures that equal consideration is given to commercial success, employees‘ interests and social consequences.
Through its close cooperation with the Institute for Human
Factors and Technology Management (IAT) of the University
of Stuttgart, Fraunhofer IAO unites basic university research
with applied science and business practice.
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BEST PAPER AWARD FOR IAO RESEARCHERS
At the APMS 2014 International Conference, Joachim Lentes and his team at Fraunhofer IAO were awarded the Best Paper Award
2014 by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). This winning paper discusses their project to create an open
platform for improving information flow during product development and production.
CITY OF STUTTGART BECOMES A REALITY LAB
Starting in January 2015, several University of Stuttgart research institutes will be investigating new forms of knowledge transfer in
the applied research project “Future City Lab_Stuttgart: Reality Lab for Sustainable Mobility Culture.” It is planned to run for at
least three years. The innovative “reality lab” research format is designed to make it easier to link scientific findings with policy and
industry, and especially to increase society’s capacity to take action.
DISTINGUISHED FOR EMBRACING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
For the fifth time in a row, Fraunhofer IAO and its partner IAT of the University of Stuttgart received the Total E-Quality award for
equal opportunity on October 24, 2014. With this title, Total E-Quality Deutschland e. V. honors companies and organizations that
foster equal opportunities and practice sustainable personnel policies. The distinction is valid for three years.
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BEST PAPER AWARD FOR IAO RESEARCHERS
Team led by Joachim Lentes recognized for new product development platform
Initiated and led by Fraunhofer IAO, the EU’s Advanced Plat-
needs. “Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular
form for Manufacturing Engineering and PLM (amePLM) proj-
stand to gain from this solution, because it’s simple to set up,
ect is designed to simplify the approach companies take to
easy to use and doesn’t require complicated maintenance,”
product development. In the project, an open engineering
Lentes adds. Customization is no problem thanks to the
platform will be created to facilitate the exchange of infor-
platform’s modular architecture, and companies can even
mation between product development partners. Project lead-
continue to use their existing software solutions and inte-
er Joachim Lentes and his team received the IFIP’s Burbidge
grate them into the platform. The first amePLM products will
Award for their publication outlining the platform on Sep-
come to market later this year.
tember 24, 2014.
Joachim Lentes studied mechanical engineering and has
Developing new products usually involves many different par-
worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer IAO for over ten years,
ties, all of them working with different software tools and
heading the Competence Team Digital Engineering there
databases. Getting these various systems to talk to each other
since 2009. His six-person team develops and researches in-
is extremely difficult and often not possible at all. As a result,
novative approaches and IT systems to increase the competi-
data exchange is onerous and the flow of information is
tiveness of product creation and realization.
sluggish – which means the processes partners rely on are
unnecessarily slow and complicated. By bringing these information flows onto a shared platform, amePLM makes all of
the necessary information available for every stakeholder
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in the format that’s right for them. “In particular, this cuts
Fraunhofer IAO, Joachim Lentes
down on the time it takes to find information, which greatly
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simplifies and speeds up product development,” Lentes says.
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This platform is based on open-source software. “And our
final product will for the most part be available as open source,
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too,” predicts Lentes. Once completed, the platform will be
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suitable for any size of company; either the project team or
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users themselves will be able to tailor it to a given company’s
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CITY OF STUTTGART BECOMES A REALITY LAB
Research project on new forms of knowledge transfer and civic participation
“Today science can only work out solutions for important ques-
porting mobility experiments in the reality lab. One of Fraunho-
tions of the future together with society. For this purpose the
fer IAO’s contributions is a specially designed smartphone app
reality labs will enable a new innovative form of know-how
for collecting mobility data. Seven University of Stuttgart insti-
transfer,” explains Theresia Bauer, Baden-Württemberg’s Min-
tutes in addition to the IAT are participating in Stuttgart’s Future
ister of Science, Research and the Arts. The Stuttgart reality
City Lab, which is one of seven such projects under way at
lab’s trans-disciplinary research approach interweaves research
other universities within Baden-Württemberg, which is funding
and teaching and integrates the city’s community directly into
all of these initiatives as part of its “Strengthening the contribu-
the research process.
tion of science for a sustainable development” program.
Using a variety of research and hands-on formats, the participating University of Stuttgart institutes want to encourage
people’s willingness to reflect on their own mobility behavior
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and exchange ideas. The reality lab will pool the knowledge
Fraunhofer IAO, Constanze Heydkamp
generated into both an interactive website and a real-life
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network of initiatives and stakeholders. The aim is to encourage
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residents to take the initiative and help shape their sustainable
mobility culture.
Further information
www.uni-stuttgart.de/hkom/presseservice/presse-
The Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management
IAT at the University of Stuttgart, which works closely with
Fraunhofer IAO, is particularly in demand by the project for its
innovative technologies and processes. For instance, the IAT is
building a visualization platform that emphasizes mobility processes and convenience in the city of Stuttgart, thereby sup-
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Equal opportunity officer
Jasmin link with the
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“Total E-Quality“ award.
DISTINGUISHED FOR
EMBRACING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Fraunhofer IAO and the University of Stuttgart IAT receive “Total E-Quality” award
High-quality services are possible only when all employees
stantly develop ourselves further – that’s why the institute is
are on an equal footing. Fraunhofer IAO and its close partner
just the right place for innovations like these,” explains Jasmin
the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management
Link. Fraunhofer IAO and IAT of the University of Stuttgart
IAT of the University of Stuttgart believe this is true for men
have implemented numerous measures to promote equal
and women, regardless of age, experience, cultural back-
standing for women and men, especially in regards to encour-
ground or academic discipline. Both institutes continuously
aging women’s careers and balancing work and family life.
develop new structures and frameworks that adapt to em-
These measures include mentoring and support programs,
ployees’ varying interests and use human resources policy
childcare near the workplace, a school holiday program for
tools to build awareness about equal opportunities among
older children, flexible working times, and, for about a year
managers and employees alike.
now, a portable childcare unit that allows parents with small
children to work in the office when primary childcare options
The result is that, for the fifth time in a row, the two insti-
are not available. What’s more, Fraunhofer IAO participates
tutes have received the Total E-Quality award for their efforts.
in several research projects to develop equal opportunity
Total E-Quality Deutschland e. V., an association comprising
measures at academic institutions. The STAGES project, for
representatives from politics, industry and science, bestows
instance, will test structural changes related to equality in the
this award on companies that demonstrate commitment to
sciences.
equal opportunities for men and women and implement a
successful and sustainable human resources policy.
The Total E-Quality award is granted annually following a
comprehensive application process and is valid for three
In their official statement, the jury said that “to receive the
years. A total of 57 organizations received the award this
award five times is clear proof of an intense dedication to
year, and the institute was honored for the fifth time in a row.
creating equal opportunities. As examples of best practice,
Fraunhofer IAO and IAT contribute positively to equal opportunity in our society.”
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Fraunhofer IAO, Jasmin Link
Equal opportunity officers Jasmin Link and Yvonne Wich ac-
Phone +49 711 970-5184
cepted the honor on behalf of the IAO and IAT in Dortmund,
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Germany, on October 24. “The structures and measures in
place at Fraunhofer IAO and at IAT create a good environ-
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ment for equal opportunities. I hope that our employees take
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these ideas with them along with their research know-how,
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in keeping with Fraunhofer’s policy of transferring expertise
through people. Also, as researchers, we are driven to con-
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